Your gift provides scholarships for our undergraduate and graduate students, funding for student research and field studies, and opportunities for students to attend scholarly conferences. Funding priorities are listed alphabetically below. Unrestricted gift funds and donations give flexibility to pursue promising opportunities and meet pressing needs. Donations to "Unrestricted Gift Funds" support activities not covered by state funding.

Make a gift by visting this secure online gift form.

Thank you in advance for your generous support of UC Santa Cruz!

Under “please direct my gift to the following area,” type in “Social Sciences Division,”
then, under “additional comments or information,” add any specifics about the program you want to support.

Anthropology

• Unrestricted Gift Fund 

• Lab Development Fund Donations provide support to assist in renovation and expansion of our archeological and physical anthropology labs
  

• Ryan Heumann Undergraduate Scholarship Established to honor Ryan Heumann, a former anthropology student, this fund assists undergraduate students with the costs of faculty-sponsored independent research, research-related travel, or travel to professional academic conferences.

Community Studies

• Unrestricted Gift Fund Contributions support students' field study internships, senior projects, and social change work.
  

• Master's in Social Documentation Program This program teaches students to translate academic knowledge into visual, audio, and print media that will have an impact on the world outside academia. Special features of the program include its focus on the study of "ordinary life" and its emphasis on training students to produce original social analysis in broadly effective modes of presentation. More information is available by visiting the Social Documentation website.

Economics

• Unrestricted Gift Fund Contributions will support undergraduate scholarships in economics.

• Applied Economics and Finance Fellowship Donations augment the endowment for graduate economics fellowships in the two year graduate M.S. program. For more information please visit Masters in Applied Economics and Finance.

• Global Scholarship Fund Contributions to this fund assist undergraduate students with funding their studies abroad which are part of the Global Economics program.

• Business Management Economics Program Your donation provides scholarships to deserving students while they are obtaining practical applied experience during their field placement experience as part of the Business Management Economics Program.

Education

• Unrestricted Gift Fund

• Graduate Fellowships Contributions augment fellowship programs for graduate students

• Governor's Teacher Scholars Fund Donations support students in the Master's in Education and Teaching Credential program.

Environmental Studies

• Unrestricted Gift Fund

• Museum of Natural History Collections Contributions support natural science collections for teaching, research, and aesthetics. More information is available on the museum's website.

• Center for Tropical Ecology, Agriculture, and Development (CenTREAD) Donations to the CenTREAD program support student training, research, and internships in tropical countries.

• Program in Community and Agroecology (PICA) Gifts support students living and learning in healthy communities and healthy food systems. More information is available on the PICA website.

• Richard A. Cooley Memorial Endowment Established in memory of the Environmental Studies Department's founding professor, contributions fund undergraduate field projects that tangibly improve the environment.

Latin American and Latino Studies

• Unrestricted Gift Fund

Legal Studies Program

• Unrestricted Gift Fund

Politics

• Unrestricted Gift Fund

• Politics Graduate Studies Contributions support financially disadvantaged graduate students with tuition and fees and fund graduate student conferences and research.

Psychology

• Unrestricted Gift Fund

• The Psychology Student Awards Endowed Fund at UC Santa Cruz Donations make one or more awards to full-time graduate or undergraduate students majoring in psychology, to assist them with the costs of faculty-sponsored independent research, research-related travel, or travel to academic conferences.

• Frank Barron Memorial Award provides an annual student research award presented in Frank’s name, and the department matches gift funds donated for this purpose up to a maximum of $5,000. Frank X. Barron, professor emeritus of psychology and one of UCSC’s most distinguished faculty, was internationally renowned for his study of creativity and personality.

Sociology

• Unrestricted Gift Fund

College Nine

• Academic/Unrestricted Gift Fund supports academic programs for College Nine students.

• College Nine New Pioneers Endowment provides support for academic and co-curricular programming, including travel, scholarships, awards, lectures, and events at College Nine.

College Ten

• Academic/Unrestricted Gift Fund supports academic programs for College Ten students.

• College Ten New Pioneers Endowment provides support for academic and co-curricular programming, including travel, scholarships, awards, lectures, and events at College Ten.

Social Sciences Division Dean's Fund

• Unrestricted Gift Fund to support divisional costs not covered by state funding. For example, Dean’s Fund monies help establish and develop innovative research centers and fund work on emerging issues.

Thank you for your generous support of UC Santa Cruz! Please contact the Social Sciences Development Office if you have questions.

The UC Santa Cruz Foundation is a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation organized in 1974. Its purposes are to promote greater community understanding of UC Santa Cruz and to solicit gifts in support of academic programs, scholarships, and capital improvements. For the purposes of strengthening the development program and partially defraying related administrative costs, a fee of 6% is assessed on all gifts effective July 1, 2010.